2018 ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay Competition Semifinalists Announced
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Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay, selected from over 700 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring this internationally-beloved genre and to have received a slate of compelling screenplays.
This year's jury is comprised of producers and executives at Appelles Entertainment, Bad Robot, Columbia Pictures, the Donners' Company, a manager at Elevate Entertainment, and the screenwriter of Die Hard and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the finalists and winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the semifinalists:
| A Fair Fight | Peter Gazdag |
| A Gang of Orphans | Sam Cooke |
| Across The Aisle | Josh Covitt |
| Adrenaline Heart | M. K. Ching |
| Af*ckinstan | Jim Maceda |
| Agency | August Xiayi Palmer |
| An End to the Means | Martha Dunne |
| Artificial | Jonathan Dillon |
| Big Following | Daniel Mercaldi |
| Black Ice Below | Peter Fraser |
| Blood Count | Anthony Crossen |
| Bodies by Grace | Pat Spivey |
| Bring The Children | Michael Wormald |
| Burrow | Ashley Burns & Noah Martin |
| Canaan | Ben Johnson |
| Children of the Storm | Michael Hahn |
| Choke Canyon | Duane Graves & Justin Meeks |
| Chopper Cowboys | Jeff Peters |
| Cumulus | Matthew Silverman |
| Date | Christian Canterbury |
| Dead Man's Switch | Brian Kazmarck |
| Deadalive | Christian J. Hearn |
| Direct Engagement | Stephen MacNeil |
| Distortion | Travis Opgenorth |
| Donor Psych | Dylan Ben-Israel |
| Edison's Ghosts | Kevin Bachar |
| Exchange | Vivian Kerr |
| Extranjero Supremo | Theo Sariklis |
| Ferocity | Kevin Bachar |
| Forty Winks | Andrew Stein |
| From The Depths | Tim Westland & Rod Thompson |
| Gare du Nord | Takeo Hori |
| GT | Travis Cox & Robert Williams |
| Half-Life | Debra Hershkowitz |
| Hemorrhage | Justin Fox |
| Ivory | Benjamin Simon |
| Lethal Injection | James Manion |
| Lost Children | Kristoffer Tabori |
| Marathon | Alex Hacker & Fraiser Kansteiner |
| Meltdown | Roger Stone |
| Monster(s) | Aidan Largey |
| Mother Inside | Jesmond Francis |
| Nature of the Beast | Aaron Kozak |
| Night of Game | Alex Beattie |
| Ninety Proof | Nick Lentz |
| No Worse Enemy | Skye Lynch |
| Once Upon A Fist | Karl Lentini |
| Orchid's Dawn | Eric Jeske & Collin Watts |
| Organelle | Edward James Anderson |
| Outside the Wire | Valerie Brotski |
| Pickett's Pride | Tess Card |
| Pig | Paul Holbrook |
| Poachers | Adam Etheridge |
| Possessions | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Record Highs! | Carl MacLaren |
| River | Terry Crist |
| Safeguard | Fiona Hunnisett |
| She Hard | J Jabbour |
| Sinkholes | Lila McLaughlin |
| Skye Lake | Jane Paulson & Marcy Kelly |
| Skyfoxes | Marisa Forrest |
| Stuck | Rich Van Tine |
| Surviving Seoul | Donald Grail |
| The Ebb | Guy Smith |
| The Federal Hotel | Karl Mather |
| The Fighting Girlfriend | Alexander Vargas |
| The Harvestmen | Nathan Cox |
| The Hunted | Mark Flood |
| The Innocent and the Vicious | Dominique Genest & Nick Kreiss |
| The Last Mile | Christian J. Hearn |
| The Legend of the Forty Thieves | Scott Hamilton |
| The Lost Khan | Jon Rosen |
| The Memory Bank | Daniel Cooper & Adam Cooper |
| The Operator | Huey Q. Pham & Jessica Petrucci |
| The Power of Three | Chantelle de Carvalho |
| The Rat | Donald Smith |
| The Rescue | Aaron Kennedy |
| The Same Blood | Petr Zavacký |
| The Treasure Kings | Kevin Bachar |
| Under a Broken Moon | James Nguyen |
| United We Fall | Matthew Dixon |
| Unwelcome | Federico Casal |
| Voight Family Vacation | Dan Cerruti |
| What Did You Do, Sweet Mary Lou? | Dave Paterson |
| Wrath of an Eagle | Bruno Borello |
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